The orator Eumenius was secretary to the emperors
Maximian and Constantius, and Professor of Rhetoric in the
college of Autun. His salary was-six hundred thousand
sesterces, which, according to the lowest computation of
that age, must have exceeded three thousand pounds a year.
He generously requested the permission of employing it in
rebuilding the college. See his Oration De Restaurandis
Scholis [c. 1l]; which, though not exempt from vanity, may
atone for his panegyrics.